Trustees, Patrons & Founder

Constituted on a national basis, the Board of Trustees holds primary responsibility for the growth and sustenance of IFA. The Trustees are closely involved in determining management policies and programme goals, and bring considerable experience in industry, finance, public affairs, law, communications, the arts and the humanities.

In order to streamline the functioning of the Board, and fully utilise the talent and expertise of the Trustees, two committees have been established with clearly defined responsibilities. The Programme Committee reviews the content and priorities of the grant programmes and the Finance Committee supervises investments, approves budgets and monitors expenditure.

Many of our ex-Trustees remain dear friends and well-wishers of the Foundation and enable us to connect to the wider world of the arts and those who support it.

The Patrons of IFA are eminent artists who support our mandate.

Board Of Trustees

Alok Rai
Language, Culture and Literature, Allahabad
Arti Kirloskar
Art, Industry, Pune
Ashoke Chatterjee
Humanities & Education, Ahmedabad
Bina Paul
Cinema, Thiruvananthapuram
Chiranjiv Singh
Civil Service, Bangalore
Ishaat Hussain
Industry, Mumbai
Navtej S Johar
Dance and Choreography, New Delhi
Pramit Jhaveri
Finance, Mumbai
Rathi Vinay Jha (Chairperson)
Civil Service, Delhi
Sajan Poovayya
Law, Bangalore
Sheba Chhachhi
Visual Arts, Delhi
Shubha Mudgal
Music, Delhi
Vivek Shanbhag
Literature, Bangalore

Finance Committee

Ashoke Chatterjee
Chiranjiv Singh
Ishaat Hussain
Rathi Vinay Jha
Sajan Poovayya

Programme Committee

Arti Kirloskar
Bina Paul
Rathi Vinay Jha
Sheba Chhachhi
Shubha Mudgal
Vivek Shanbhag

Founder/Director

Anmol Vellani

IFA Settlor

Mrinal Sen

Patrons

Amitav Ghosh
Ebrahim Alkazi
Naseeruddin Shah
Raja Syed Muzaffar Ali
Shekhar Kapur
Shyam Benegal
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Ex-trustees

A Ravindra
Abhijit Basu
Abid Hussain
Aman Nath
Aparna Sinha
Chitra Visweswaran
Francis Wacziarg
Gieve Patel
Githa Hariharan
Gulammohammed Sheikh
Gurcharan Das
Jerry Rao
Jitish Kallat
Kiran Nadar
Lakshminarayanan
Lalit Bhasin
Mani Narayanswami
MV Subbiah
Nandita Palchoudhuri
NS Raghavan
P Krishnamurthy
Piyush Pandey
Prakash Belawadi
Priya Paul
Rashmi Poddar
Ravi Nedungadi
RKP Shankardass
Shanta Gokhale
Shivkumar Sharma
Simone N Tata
Susie Tharu
Tara Sinha
Vasant Chowdhury
Vijay Crishna